Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
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i just saw the trailer, harrison Ford looks dull compared to his younger days.I guess no one can escape aging.
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Originally posted by nehpyh:
Wah...love Indy....my kinda film...
Almost wanted to get the 3 pack series....now can wait for the 4 pack series blu-ray!!!!
ya i saw the trilogy DVD metal set today. guess i'll just wait for the quadilogy set.
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i wanna chiong down to catch it this thur when it opens but timing is not right for me
so i am watching on saturday yippeebtw next sat (30/5) GV Grand got BBQ cum Indiana tix at $32
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oh no the review at cannes is not good
a critic says it is: boringwell i want to watch it nonetheless! it's indy!~!~!~!
http://movies.msn.com/movies/cannes-film-festival/may18-blog?GT1=7701
edit: just saw the trailers quite nice leh
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So it took 19 long years since the last installment, to finally decide to nail a decent story befitting of the trilogy that went before it. I would have thought it's because Spielberg, Lucas and Ford were racing against time to add some good money to their coffers before the latter got too old to don the fedora again, so they just greenlit this poor, poor imitation and parody of an "Indiana Jones" (deliberate quotes, mind you) movie, and slapped a Kingdom of Fictitious Skulls on it to make it sound like the worse title ever since Attack of the Clones or The Phantom Menace. If I had my way, this would be Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Mediocre Action Sequels with Weak Multi-Genre Plots.
Continues at http://anutshellreview.blogspot.com/2008/05/indiana-jones-and-kingdom-of-crystal.html
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Will Indiana Jones Bring Kids to the Cinema?
By Raoul Railey
14:42, May 22nd 2008One thing that can be said about ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ is exactly Ford’s line from the movie: “Same old same old.” And if this is usually a bad thing about a film, the rule does not apply to this one.
The Indiana Jones saga is too much of a legend to allow people, even if they are its creators, to experiment. It is perfect just the way it is. Indy is basically one of the very few characters that can dodge bullets and escape from impossible situations without making any viewer say “Yeah, right…Like I’m supposed to believe it.”
Yes, scenes are not shot so beautifully like in ‘Schindler’s List,’ but this is exactly what makes people love the films. It is just a story, and the director and the whole staff do not want to make you think anything else.
It is most probable that both George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had similar thoughts because they have managed to give the movie the series’ ’80s look. It seems that CGI was almost never used and Harrison Ford, though aged 65, has performed his own stunts just like in the good old days. Spielberg has even made the film’s director of photography, Janusz Kaminski, study the technique the cinematographer of the other movies in the saga, the now retired Douglas Slocombe, used.
But the big issue remains whether Indy will manage to get kids to come watch it, or will it be seen by older cinemagoers mostly. During the last years, kids have been the ones to decide a movie’s box-office success in its first days of screening. This is why the producers have led a strong marketing campaign focused on children, which consisted both in movie trailers on kids’ television, and actor appearances at kid shows.
If ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ will manage to both bring the kinds to watch it, and make them love it, the movie’s success will be complete: the producers will make a lot of money, and a new generation of Indy fans will emerge. -
is it nice?
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GREAT MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!
i will watch it again!!!!!
omg harrison ford still looks so good. nice plot too. whoever said there is no story to it?! and Cate Blanchett is amazing!!!! i love her accent. she looks and sounds exactly like a russian KGB!!!!! i like her, like meryl streep like that, so intelligent woohooo
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Mean no hum but i tot the movie was so-so....preferred Last Crusade...damn SpillBeer la....everything he's shooting now got aliens...sianz....
Sorry I spoilt it...guess lower your expectations and you'll enjoy it more!!!
Love Ford but guess watching a 50+ Indy just dun cut it for me....considering that I'm an Indy seow....
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agreed with the above post,the show is just so-so ,its like Indiana mix with x-files.
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love the actions, its like every 5mins will have actions!
alot of funny scenes too haha
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I find it quite nice. Maybe cause i didnt watch any of indie's movie be4, i find it quite awesome. But 1 thing i dislike was the alien part, kinda make no sense. Why 13 alien form into 1 alien, and then give tt woman knowledge till she died? And why did the alien leave since it's been thr for more than 3000 or 7000 yrs?
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Originally posted by jay_rocks:
I find it quite nice. Maybe cause i didnt watch any of indie's movie be4, i find it quite awesome. But 1 thing i dislike was the alien part, kinda make no sense. Why 13 alien form into 1 alien, and then give tt woman knowledge till she died? And why did the alien leave since it's been thr for more than 3000 or 7000 yrs?
i think, just plain guessing, they couldn't leave becos they were incomplete. Until all 13 were united then they could "return".
and then the woman died becos the gods know who are the good people and who are the bad people. notice when the gang came into the temple, the "eye" looked at them? so the gods "know".
Typical lor, 好人有好下场，�人有�下场 hahaha ang moh philosophy also the same haha
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
i think, just plain guessing, they couldn't leave becos they were incomplete. Until all 13 were united then they could "return".
and then the woman died becos the gods know who are the good people and who are the bad people. notice when the gang came into the temple, the "eye" looked at them? so the gods "know".
Typical lor, 好人有好下场，�人有�下场 hahaha ang moh philosophy also the same haha
But hor, since they stayed on earth for tt long, they shud stay mah. Moreover, how come the alien cannot move one?? Must be crystalised head?
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Originally posted by jay_rocks:
But hor, since they stayed on earth for tt long, they shud stay mah. Moreover, how come the alien cannot move one?? Must be crystalised head?
hahaha dunno leh
dunno issit anything to do with the legend
you know they mumble mumble about the story about the place that people search for it and disappeared that part, dunno issit got anything to do with the legenddunno leh
a god like this not very clever leh
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It seems to suggest that all gawds, have a shelf life. They may be more powerful than human, just like we are more powerful than a rabbit, they will expire in time to come. Or at least their mortal bodies will erode leaving some crystalized magnetic skeletons. Hey, they sure looked like Aliens.
As for the number 13..well , I have no idea...but i think it's better to use the happening number 12 than 13. Cos of the zodiac and horoscope. Guess the 13 suggest something beyound our constellation.
I think it'll be cool to have a bit of their sticky head for some electrical components....i mean...the magnetic field can be so strong yet Indy can still pull coins off the numbskull....cool isn't it!
I'm a bit confuse though, if the numbskull attracts only ferrous metals or anything metal...cos it seemed to attract coins which in today's standards are not made of ferrous metals (nicke, bronze, etc...) yet, it didn't suck in the vehicles or even the metal casing that it was enclosed in....cool magnets!
oh, it's supposed to be crystal, but it looked so cheap and light i though it's some Design and Technology student's acrylic artefact! Hope Ikea can copy if and mass produce for their lighting catelogue!
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I feel pretty bad for Cate Blanchett. Good acting cannot save a bad story. She landed a part in a shitty piece of work.
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i hvn watched it. i guess everyone's trying to whip the dead horse la.
rambo, rocky, indiana jones.. lol i really hope they don't have ET 2
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So.
Old.
Yes.
Oooold.
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Originally posted by TehJarVu:
hahaha dunno leh
dunno issit anything to do with the legend
you know they mumble mumble about the story about the place that people search for it and disappeared that part, dunno issit got anything to do with the legenddunno leh
a god like this not very clever leh
only got "mystic power" but not almighty (heehee)
Liddat they need to disappear and reappear for many times wor -
watch already, i missed abit of the front part because i was late.
haha but not bad la. i quite like it.
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Not read the reviews on it but I'm watching it anyway because it's an Indiana Jones movie!!!
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Ya, e alliens part really leave loads of questions
1) Why do they come
2) If u need e skull 2 open e door then how do ppl get in 2 steal it?
3)There were 13 but how come they then combine 2gether into 1,well i guess tat why they r alliens
4)So much for e gift man
All in all i still love indy, he might be old but he still indy
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aliens? son? got married?
wtf?! Spielberg should have stop at 3.
but like Cate Blanchett though..
